Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-06
DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS.

DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS.
De Smet is billed for Uncle Toms
Cabin and the Mikado.
Carthage feels the boom and wants the
Duluth road from Wetertown to Mitch
ell.
The city council has granted a charter
to Huron citizens for o telephone ex-
change.
GA. Cheney of Huron bought the
Salem Register Tuesday and will take
immediate possession.
A call is isaued for a county conven-
ton of the frieuds OF local option to be
held at Huron the 10th.
The wife of Postmaster Love, of Hur-
on, is failing go rapidly in California that
Mr.. Love left for there Sunday.
1t is expected that an eastern capita
list will begin the erection of an opera
house in Carthage in a few days.
Patents granted Dakotaians: It. NJ.
Neff, Huron, compositor' frame; NJ, B.
Runyon, Fort Buford, picket pin.
Monday evening, Mrs. Barker, presi-
dent of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance union, will lecture in Carthage.
The May term of the district court for
Miner county convened at Howard
Tuesday, Hon Bartlett Trip presiding.
JsC. Slater, one of the first settlers in
this Iroquois, sold his hotel to O. W.
Grannis. The building will be thorough.
ly o%verhauled, cleaned up and reatted.
A resident of Mcintosh county has
found the corpse of William Nc Dousld,
the hunter, who was lest in a stor,a last
December. A portion OF the Jody had
been eaten by wolves or other beasts.
The pockets contained a roll OF green
backs and other valuables.
The Voaks grading outfit, consisting
Of 100 teams and men, left Ellendsle
Tuesday for the Beaver creek valley to
work on the Aberdeen, Bismarck and
Northwestern. The Manitoba has It's
rails across the James river aear Lud-
den, and will complete the line to Ellen
dale in three weeks.
Commander Harrison Allen, Of the G..
A. B., has appointed the following staff:
Col. 8. 81. Jumper, Aberdeen, A. A. g.:
Dol. O. I. Mccoy, Aberdeen. A. @. M.
g.; Col. John w. Gregg, Wahpeton,
inspector general; Col. M. W. Greene,
Fargo, Judge advocate general; Col. Rob-
ert q. Bennett, Bsresford, chief muster
ing officer.
The remains of w. o. Breed, killed in
the Northern Pacific railroad accident
near Driscoll Saturday, we're taken back
to his former home at Faribault, MINI,
the family accompanying them. Super
lntendent Soobell of the Northern Paci-
flo telegraph lines, has been removed to
the Brainerd hospital. He will recover
though badly hurt.
The Brookings county commissioners
meet in special session Monday to con-
slider plans for . new jail, which have
been secured by the auditor since the
last meeting. The criminals from that
county are stored in the jails OF other
counties. and the storage last year cost
the county $3.50 more than the poor of
the county for the same time.
Atthe village election at Iroquois the
following officers were elected: Clerk
Louis Gilbert; assessor, G. o. Bartle;
treasurer, O. F. Zimmerman; marshal,
Ohas. McRostier; justice of the peace,
y. NJ. Price; trustees. o. Casperson, L.
L.. Lostutter and Peter West. The
proposition to organize the village into
an independent school district was car.
ried unanimously.
The municipal election in Deadwood
Tuesday was the most exciting in the
history Of the city. Eight hundred votes
we're polled. Sol Star was reelected
mayor for the fourth term by o majority
Of l27 over George v. Ayers. Both are
prominent business men,. Chief Engi.
neer Mcdonald was elected alderman in
the second ward in q remarkable and
very exciting contest.
The register Of deeds of Brookings
county is shocked over a letter from az
eastern shylock asking if he could sent
him the names of some loan agents who
could place several thousand dollars ir
such o manner as to net him(the shylock,
20 per cent. The shyIock evidently
wrote-to the wrong county, as he was
informed by return mail that no suct
loan agents lived in Brookings.
In court at Rapid City, q decision hal
been rendered which settles the title tt
the largest water power in the BIacl
Hills. The parties to the case were thu
Estrella del Norte mining company ane
she Dakota water power company
The decision was in favor of the lattel
company. This Settles a long fight
The Dakota water power company ii
at work in improvements on Its property
the estimated cost of the work now undel
way being $3.50, 900.
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